HOME ALONE :)

Nicholas isn't taking Christmas break so we are just going to have Christmas here in TN with the three of us. He is only working half days, so it's not like he is missing anything not being on leave like everyone else. Frankly right now we can't afford to go back to California for the Holidays since we are going in March. He is being smart about his leave days, he keeps racking them up!  Nick took Jordyn on a Daddy Daughter date today! I am so excited they don't do it often. I have no idea where they went and what they are doing and I can actually care less. As long as they are enjoying one another's company and I don't have to hear "Mom" or "Wife" every other minute and there isn't WWE going on in my living room I am all for it. Speaking of WWE, Nicholas and Jordyn are always rough housing. He wanted a boy so bad and got a girly tom boy. Jordyn is a boy in a tu tu! She loves to fight and hang all over her dad like he is her personal play yard. Some times it is cute and others it gets to be too much because I HATE noise. We also live on the second floor and I am always telling them to keep it down and be mindful of our neighbors downstairs. I am surprised they have yet to cuss us out. Yesterday Jordyn grabbed her dads XBOX controller while it was on pause or something and tried to run, he tackled her; held her in the air and slammed her on the couch (she loves it) but the controller hit her in the forehead! It started swelling up and turning blue-ish purple-ish. she didn't even cry. The first thing that came out my mouth was "Nicholas I have to take her picture in front of the Christmas Tree in 4 days!" Rudolph has a red nose NOT a Qwazi Moto bump on his forehead too! It has gone down a lot today and there isn't too much discoloration, so her Reindeer photo should still turn out okay.  I met a really nice Army Wife named Martha on Facebook we have been messaging a lot. She is giving me all kinds of information on the base in HI and how much she loved it, so much info on housing, jobs, family things on base. NOTHING BUT GOOD THINGS. They are currently stationed in Germany and she doesn't like it soo much. She says it is a beautiful place but expensive for traveling since the Euro out weighs the American Dollar and they aren't as family oriented as HI was and there is not a lot of things to take her 2 year old son to do. She said it is most definetly a single soldiers kind of place. Nicholas re-enlists while he is deployed and wants to stay with a infintry unit. He loves being a line medic. He says Germany or HI is where he wants to re-enlist for. I was born in Germany. My mother and father were both Active Army. I don't remember it much. I would like to go back one day but maybe not so soon. It is very far from family and I don't think that Jordyn is old enough to appreciate living there or even remember it so maybe later on in my Husbands military career. I am TEAM HAWAII all the way. We shall see what happens. I just pray The Lord brings my Soldier back home in one piece and with a sane mind. I try to push the deployment out of my mind and even writing about it now I can feel the anxiety start to rise.